This report is auto-generated from the latest RBAC Atlas scan (2026-08-02). It analyzes the RBAC permissions of 257 Kubernetes open-source projects across 27008 manifest versions to provide a snapshot of the current cloud-native threat landscape.

At a Glance

MetricValue
Projects analyzed257
Total manifest versions27008
Avg service accounts per project2.11
Avg permission bindings per project30.83
Avg workloads per project3.47
Avg critical risks per project3.49
Avg high risks per project3.39
Avg medium risks per project2.25
Avg low risks per project21.69
Projects with critical risks171
Projects with no RBAC permissions54

Risk Distribution

Risk LevelCountPercentage
Critical89811.33%
High87211.0%
Medium5797.31%
Low557570.36%
Total7924

Top 10 RBAC Risk Tags

Risk TagOccurrences
InformationDisclosure1122
WildcardPermission914
Tampering843
ClusterWideAccess737
PotentialPrivilegeEscalation580
DataExposure539
Reconnaissance523
PrivilegeEscalation437
ResourceNameRestricted389
DenialOfService324

Top 10 Triggered Risk Rules

RuleOccurrences
Base Risk Level - Low7010
Base Risk Level - High735
Read ConfigMaps in a namespace260
Read secrets in a namespace244
Read secrets cluster-wide190
Base Risk Level - Medium177
Read ConfigMaps cluster-wide162
Modify ConfigMaps in a namespace155
List Namespaces (Cluster Reconnaissance)142
Read RBAC configuration cluster-wide137

Top 10 Riskiest Projects

Ranked by weighted risk score (critical×10 + high×5 + medium×2 + low×1), using only the latest version of each project.

ProjectVersionCriticalHighMediumLowScore
openebs3.9.09073301701495
victoria-metrics-distributed0.9.013117539764
longhorn1.9.2205637493
gitlab9.9.318109199447
kuadrant-operator1.5.2-rc12194103366
gitlab-operator3.2.12057124363
eg-universal-agent-operator0.0.51624864360
flux22.9.21830024354
victoria-metrics-k8s-stack0.9.81317598323
opentelemetry-kube-stack0.9.413913111312

Top 10 Projects by Permission Count

ProjectPermissions
openebs363
gitlab236
rook-ceph185
stackgres-operator181
victoria-metrics-distributed174
tigera-operator169
gateway-operator162
gitlab-operator156
opentelemetry-kube-stack146
edp-install142